It simply wouldn’t be a summer holiday without a little cold beer, would it? And luckily the remote, beautiful Coromandel Peninsula, the current holiday location, was happy to oblige us with the the Hot Water Brewery. You find this little delight on the Tairua-Whitianga Road, …
Hello everyone, this shan’t be my usual post with recipe, or even a very long one – the Mister and I are on holiday, currently in the beautiful Bay of Plenty, NZ, at the dazzling Papamoa Beach. But I thought I might share a few …
The little rosette in the middle of my bok choy, depicted above, is not something you’d see in an exhibition-standard specimen. It indicates the plant in question has gone to seed. Far from being ashamed, I am absolutely delighted I kept something alive long enough …
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good sandwich. Although bread has been having a hard time of late, what with low-carb fashions and suspicions about gluten, I do not let these things hold me back. Nonetheless, we all have times when we crave a …
Today was an exciting first for me. As you may have read in earlier posts, I have taken to gardening over recent months. Well folks, today was the first time I harvested and ate something I had grown myself (aside from herbs…I’m talking things you …
I have recently taken up gardening. That is a sentence I never thought I would write. Yet, here we are, and so far I am enjoying it immensely. My Italian flat-leaf parsley in particular is going great guns. The picture above may not look as …
Gingery, salty, savoury and good; this Asian noodle soup recipe is something I muddled around with when I lived in London and frequently found myself in need of something comforting to protect against the long dark wintery nights. This warm, spicy noodle soup is the …
In the hilly little town where I live, we are very lucky to have a fresh food market by the waterfront every Sunday morning. And one of the highlights of this market is the fresh fish boat. It parks up on a jetty near the …